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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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Kiell Tampubolon

Jun 15

I gave Claude a memory of everything I browse — here's the architecture

#mcp #ai #typescript #opensource

3 min read

Jun 15

wayback-video: Turn Any Site's History into a Video

#python #webdev #opensource #devtools

4 min read

Jun 15

Top AI Agent Standards to Know in 2026

#agents #ai #architecture #opensource

5 min read

Satwik Sai Prakash Sahoo

Jun 15

Merging My First PR for GSoC!

#gsoc #ai #python #opensource

3 min read

Fenix

Jun 15

Why I Built Open Source Civil Defense — A Safe Space for Attacked Maintainers

#showdev #opensource #security #cybersecurity

3 min read

Jun 15

Rio de Janeiro's "Own LLM" Looks Like a Merge: What to Read Between the Lines

#english #llm #opensource #ollama

8 min read

Jun 15

El "LLM propio" de Río de Janeiro parece ser un merge: qué leer entre líneas

#spanish #espanol #llm #opensource

9 min read

Vladislav Popov

Jun 15

Building a Marine Chart Parser in TypeScript: Parsing Binary Formats, Topology, and IHO Symbology

#typescript #opensource #gis #webdev

2 min read

Jun 15

The 5.5% Tax of OpenRouter — and Why I Built an Alternative

#openai #llm #ai #opensource

7 min read

danio

Jun 15

Closed labs are tightening up while open models flood in — 3 AI stories for builders (June 15)

#news #ai #devtools #opensource

2 min read

pengspirit

Jun 15

The MCP Server Pre-Publish Checklist

#devtools #ai #opensource #mcp

3 min read

Luca Sepe

Jun 15

I'm building a read-only context engine for Kubernetes and AI agents

#kubernetes #sre #opensource #ai

6 min read

Lumina403

Jun 15

I resurrected an archived C++/Qt6 desktop mascot and injected a fully autonomous local AI agent core into it (Powered by Ollama/Qwen)

#ai #programming #opensource #automation

2 min read

chowyu

Jun 15

How AIClaw Keeps Skills Small in Context but Ready at Runtime

#ai #opensource #agents #webdev

4 min read

benjamin

Jun 15

Stop pasting JWTs into random websites — I built a zero-dep CLI to decode them in your terminal

#showdev #security #cli #opensource

2 min read

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